Today's News

How residents will dispose of old tires now that new state regulations are taking effect was discussed again by County Council on Monday.

But a final decision hasn’t been reached yet.

Jana White, a representative from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control’s solid waste division, talked to council Monday about restrictions recently put in place by DHEC that call for tracking the disposal of tires throughout the state. The requirements also require counties to count tires and verify who is dropping them off.

VAN WYCK, Nestled among tree-lined creeks is a safe place where abused horses find healing.

Healing Horses, a nonprofit organization affiliated with Project Halo in Charlotte, recently took in 11 neglected horses from a Lancaster County farm and took them to the organization’s 11-acre sanctuary in Van Wyck.

Some of the horses were tied to trees, left to stand in their own waste, with very little to eat.

But what shocked Healing Horses director Katie Holme the most recently was finding a stallion nailed into his stall. He was knee-deep in manure and muck.

INDIAN LAND – All eyes were on Dale Ardizzone as he answered questions about Inspiration Ministries’ 90-acre City of Light campus Sept. 21.

Ardizzone, general counsel for the City of Light, attended an Indian Land Action Council meeting, hoping to allay concerns about the ongoing project. He was joined by developers Bryan and Skip Tuttle. The three spoke to a full house in the meeting room of Del Webb Library.

McBEE Buford was on the road this week, as the Jackets headed to McBee to take on the unbeaten Panthers. The trip home was happy after the upset-minded Jackets knocked off the fifth-rated Panthers, 3-0 in a thrilling win.

If you were looking for a shootout in this contest, then you went to the wrong stadium.

The Conference III-A match-up was a stalemate up until the fourth quarter.

A recent alcohol enforcement sting by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office turned out not to be a sting at all because no one got stung.

Sheriff’s deputies conducted an operation on Sept. 21 to see whether local convenience stores were checking the identification of people trying to buy alcohol. A person underage working undercover with the sheriff’s office attempted to buy alcohol at stores in the county.